Mass. schools take steps to protect students during solar eclipse [Video]

Several school districts in Massachusetts are taking precautions to help protect their students’ eyes during Monday’s solar eclipse.Excitement is building for the first total solar eclipse in the United States since 2017, and people in parts of Massachusetts will be able to see the majority of the sun blocked by the moon. There are also places in New England that are in the path of totality.”I’m driving up to Burlington, Vermont, so I can see the total solar eclipse,” said Dr. Jason Comander, a retina specialist with Mass Eye and Ear. “But even here in Boston, you’ll be able to see over 90 percent of the sun blocked out.”Comander is also warning people not to stare directly at the sun without the proper eyewear.”If you do stare at the sun, you’re going to get a crescent-shaped branding of the shape of the sun burned into the light-sensing cells of your …